Manor Lords - Complete Farming Guide for Beginners (Manor Lords Tips & Tricks)

Manor Lord Complete Farming Guide and Tutorial for how to get started farming and maximizing your Crop growth in Manor Lords! These Tips & tricks for Manor Lords and this Complete Guide to Farming for Beginner's will help you feed your village EARLY and keep you from losing all your crops!
Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro
0:09 - Crop Types
0:46 - Seasons
1:55 - Fertility
3:00 - Farmhouse
3:22 - Field Tips
7:25 - Harvesting
7:46 - Resource Crafting
9:50 - Farming Tricks
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[@thomashazlewood4658]

Zounds! Finally I've found out how pastures/sheep are used to increase fertility. Many thanks!

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

You got it!!

[@SuperLukePower]

You can plow and sowing in autumn so the crop reaches the 100% growth definitely by the end of Juli/August. Don’t start plowing and sowing in spring. Way too late for the 100%

[@reformedtoxic4222]

gorgeous visuals in this game

[@CubeInspector]

FYI strat gaming did a bunch of testing. Fertility diesnt really effect yields unless its below 30%. A 35% yield was the same as a 67% yield. Well within 3 or 4 wheat. Atatistically irrelevant.

[@steveyboi998]

thanks this is what I was after hahaha

[@BiglerSakura]

4:06 - those percentages for the crop types, are percentages of actually what? I've heard it's kinda "remaining fertility" rather than growing efficiency per square.

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

Basically this, It means if it is 17% fertility rate and red. Only 17% of the max yield can be grown there. If it would have grown 100 normally, now if you grew on it would only grow 17 crops max if everything goes perfect. Lots of times it doesnt and you get like 10-15.

[@delcien9697]

great guide. thnx

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

You got it!

[@rbach6021]

Great Video. Can you do one on pastures/livestock? I have a sheep farm with 3/5 sheeps and a pasture containing 4 more. I don't get why they are not taken into the sheep farm. Is the pasture just an extension to contain even more sheep and are they sheared there just the same?

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

I believe that they are shared there

[@Noximien]

Do I have to have people assigned to the farm at all times? I unassigned people from the farm when the fields were fully planted, letting them grow. When I reassigned them in autumn to harvest, they ignored the fully grown fields and started planting the fields for next year, leaving the grown crops to die. Farming in this game is giving me a headache. Somehow I can't wrap my head around how it's supposed to be useful when it takes up so many resources and villagers, especially early game.

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

Your idea is correct, just make sure you have the priority for the field set when you reassign so they take care of harvesting the certain fields first before planting others

[@jrolson85]

crap, I thought the red areas were the fertile ground....

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

Lol

[@uberknight72]

What alternate universe do you hail from? Lol

[@thatmajestictoad]

​@@uberknight72 Thought the same tbh. Thought process is red/hot areas mean dense/rich with something. Kind of like infrared

[@BiglerSakura]

@@CreativeGamingKZbin does fertilization improve red areas and make them usable for agriculture?

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

@@BiglerSakura yes!!

[@steveyboi998]

I built a size 6 pasture (stupid I know, but first run through and just wanted to see how the game runs and if I'd like it or not), and have it fenced up, I have space for like 90 sheep haha, but I can only get 4 to be on the pasture, the others ive bought just stay in the livestock trader and do nothing, is there a limit to how many can go on a field that the game doesnt tell us? am i missing something?

[@Ardish17]

My farmer is harvesting and not storing the crops to the farmhouse. They just continue to plowing by hand after that and I didn't know where all the crops going. Do I miss something? 🤔🤦🏼

[@andersrobertsen7610]

I really hope he changes the progression system. It takes way too long to unlock, and theres stuff that you should already be able to do. He should have things automatically unlock with a certain population level

[@TheFavorite95]

If you rotate crops, will fertility decrease for just that crop, disproportionately that crop, or for all crops equally? I'm trying to know if it'd be efficient to perhaps get two different crop years for every 1 fallow year

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

So I believe the fertility for that crop you grew specifically only goes down. The others should stay the same

[@Warsrecker]

@CreativeGaming Am I doing something wrong? I build my farms as early as possible with a farm house and one worker (seems like that does nothing since he just waits around and just crops make him work), but still. It started with wheat fertility of 44%. So I let them fallow for 2 years but it did not change a thing. But the moment i grow wheat it lowers the fertility drasticly. One morgen field brought me down to 26%. But it does not regenerate. So initial question. Am I doing something wrong or is it some kind of bug?

[@UGon91]

There is a maximun fertility you can´t surpass. It depends on the fertility shown on the map when you choose where to build the field.

[@Goldenbird707]

if u want to stop fallow if its stuck before the season starts and u wanna change the crop type , trye burn the field u get this option when u click on the field

[@apo2000]

Its not told correctly in the video, fallow fields will not generate but only REgenerate fertility, so in not so fertile regions you can never reach good fertility

[@Swizdom]

so do i have to tell them to early harvest all of my fields if they dont hit 100%? it seems like all of my crops die to winter, but i start farming lots of 1.0 size plot the second winter is done and i thought the villagers would take care of it or am i just doing something wrong?

[@andersrobertsen7610]

That's a good question. That may be happening to me, but I thought that they just couldn't harvest all of them in time. I'm not a big fan of too much unnecessary micro management

[@bulletpretzels1198]

Are be hives straight forwards . Dont need a certain type of fértiles soil or anything ? Can place in any startup plantation ?

[@ericboyle8296]

Yes no connection the the farming. You have to unlock the bee keeper skill first and then you can place your hives anywhere. I put mine near the Granary and market for efficiency.

[@UGon91]

Hi! do you know how to move animals from one pasture to another?

[@CodeZeeZ]

I have this problem too. Did you find a solution?

[@UGon91]

@@CodeZeeZ yes. Just delete any pastures you have built and sheepards will take the sheep to the fields that are not being used.

[@CodeZeeZ]

@@UGon91 Ah yes, I see now. Thanks

[@Wulfenburg]

Say I have one field, and it's set to fallow. Do I need families attached to the farm? or is that just an automatic process?

[@martinholden6214]

As far as I know and have seen, fallow = 0 input needed for that period its fallow. Jst make sure workers are bk in time for crop time

[@krassilverfang5504]

Is the starting fertility the maximum cap or can you make the land more fertile over time by creating fallow fields?

[@CodeZeeZ]

I think the fallow field, lets say it starts at 60% is the maximum. Only by turning it into a pasture can you get it up to 100%

[@kiptanoi4422]

Do you place down a farmhouse first year? Second year, or third year? If first year, what do you need to build before a farmhouse?

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

I focus on building your starter production buildings, storehouses, wood buildings, berry hut etc. don’t need the farmhouse first year honestly with enough berries collected

[@CHAOSMOVEMENT]

Awesome, now how do you get the wheat to plant, and more oxen and whatnot?

[@apex1615]

assign a few families (best is all 8 so it happens really quickly) to the farmhouse. they will first plow the field and then plant the seeds when they are done plowing the field. when the whole field has been sown, u can unassign all the families from the farmhouse, because the crops are now growing and do not need attending. u do not need an ox to plow or sow the field, it is a waste of a point imo since a few families do it way quicker than 1 family and an ox.

[@dk-sky3820]

@@apex1615first of all don’t know what you’re doing wrong and how your field priority is setup, but a family with an ox plows faster than 5 families together. Plus they can work together. Make many smaller fields rather than few gigantic if your oxen has difficulties in pathfinding, plowing your behemoths for fields Secondly a point in plowing is not a waste since oxen are not only used for plowing, but for faster crop moving as well once it’s harvested. And lastly a plowing point in farming region is definitely not a waste since there is a Fertilization perk locked out behind it which basically allows you to forget about the fallow years and crop rotation.

[@davidmckeon5995]

why do my fields say they yield like 1.5K and when i harvest, only like 100 is the result?

[@DJmaschine1]

What field size do you recommend once you have the oxen upgrade? I seem to build them too big i fear

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

Honestly maybe like 2.0+ I think the oxen should be able to handle pretty easy

[@noxid86]

@@CreativeGamingKZbin Man every other guide i've watched has said ".2 or .3" and so far it feels waaay too small.

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

@@noxid86 yeah I think 1.0 is fairly good size right off the bat to not make things so complicated. As you get use to it smaller plots can be better

[@noxid86]

@@CreativeGamingKZbin yeah i'm having a hell of a time feeding my people. So far backyard carrots work better, but then I hit a wall when I need ale. Some people say don't start with crop rotation but it feels like a lot to manage manually.

[@lieselstrick]

When do the people start to turn the harvested emmer into grain? After one year I still have the same stuff in the farmhouse but the never had a chance to work.

[@colinwhalen2632]

Do you have a windmill? If not make one near the farmhouse and put a family in it

[@lieselstrick]

@@colinwhalen2632 I have two nearby the fields. Maybe it's a bug 🤷‍♀️

[@apo2000]

One problem i have is that sowing in Autum makes the fields reach 100% growth way too early, so the yield actually starts to reduce from June to September, so when the (automatic) harvesting season starts, my fields only give me about 5 wheat 🧐

[@BiglerSakura]

Just a wild guess, I would try to check the "Force early harvest box" when the field reaches over 90% growth. May be this will induce non-automatic harvesting just in time?

[@chrismitchell7090]

I have 5 sheep that were in a pasture. I switched the crop to fallow and deleted the pasture and my sheep won't move to the crop. They aren't even an option under live stuck option.

[@Aggies44]

Did you build a fence around the crop field?

[@Splidtter]

@@Aggies44 THIS!

[@thekey1175]

how are you using the heavy plow? Every time I turn it on it seems to considerably slow down plowing. Instead of like 5 families working the fields its only one person and they work corner to corner

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

So if it works like that maybe set aside a separate field for them to work on. I though they all worked in conjunction but may be wrong

[@thekey1175]

@@CreativeGamingKZbin do you mind if I link a video showing what im talking about?

[@michealnelsonauthor]

You want to make many but smaller fields, first off. 2nd, multiple farm houses. If they fail to complete a step for the entire field by seasons end, the field fails to grow a crop that year. So, several smaller fields… Then the farm families from their farmhouses can do several and the ox drawn plow can do some too.

[@thekey1175]

@@michealnelsonauthor OK but when I use an ox and a fully stocked farm house they can do 3 fields of 0.5 size and only complete the two the ox isn't on. If I have no ox they can complete 4 fields.

[@ArkhonXIX]

I cant get the damn oxen to help...i spent the point on the plow and i literally have two oxen sitting in their stalls next to the farm down the road and i dont know how to assign them to help

[@simonbaush6200]

Plowing/sowing should be done before winter, not in March.

[@NMKatlarge]

Do you need to keep the farmhouse staffed all year round?

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

Nope just the months they are working

[@MrWigpeeler]

Is there way to be sure you don’t take them away too early, or add them too late?

[@CreativeGamingYouTube]

@@MrWigpeeler basically once all the fields are tended to for that season, that’s when you can pull them

[@speedymccreedy8785]

How does this make any sense, are you saying you get two crop yields a year?

[@xyuvvv]

rye doesnt get converted to flour fml

[@zaiivonhest]

Im I really dumb or is it no way to have multiple farmhouses and expect the farmers on each farm to work the closest fields? Seems the spend all of the autumn to just run around because they all just do one field at a time...

[@henkweijs3414]

You can change their work area in farmhouse, the same as lumber and firewood guy

[@carlosduran4940]

I need to know why they take in autum and decide to try planting the crops again

[@jnnnn8051]

I read that the wheat are winter wheat which is commonly planted in autumn.

[@kunalji108]

hey im from india {BHARAT} how can i get this game

[@castoly]

The game is available on steam on the 26th of April.

[@speedymccreedy8785]

totally freaking useless, tell us the months.